TAMARA-ANNA CISLOWSKA - PIANO

Tamara-Anna Cislowska is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and recognised pianists. Soloist, recitalist and chamber music specialist, she performs in Australia and worldwide in repertoire spanning three centuries, to critical and public acclaim, and is also renowned for her eloquent writing and popular new role as presenter on ABC Classic FM radio. Tamara has won international prizes in London, Italy and Greece, including the Rovere d’Oro, and in Australia has earned awards such as ABCYoung Performer of the Year, a Freedman Fellowship from the Music Council of Australia, the 2012 Art Music Awardfor ‘Performance of the Year’ (ACT) and most recently the 2015 ARIA for 'Best Classical Album'.

NEW RELEASE: Tamara's new album for ABC Classics, 'Into Silence' with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, featuring music of Eastern European composers Górecki, Pärt, Pelēcis, Vasks (media release)

Unsent love letters: Meditations on Erik Satie nominated for a 2017 ARIA Fine Arts Award for 'Best Classical Album', Tamara's 5th solo album to be nominated for an ARIA. Tamara also features as soloist on the Australian Chamber Orchestra's 'Mountain', nominated for a 2017 ARIA for 'Best Original Soundtrack' (Limelight review here)

Unsent Love Letters reviews: "Their latest project... is equally outstanding... Cislowska brings the Kats-Chernin/Satie amalgam to life with the same brilliance... Unsent Love Letters is a triumph for Kats-Chernin and Cislowska, and a great tribute to the tender and exquisite music of Erik Satie." (Readings Monthly, 'Classical Album of the Month', March 2017)

"If Elena Kats-Chernin had married Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, their musical children would have sounded like the 26 little piano pieces on this beguiling album... Deceptively simple and unadorned, they trickle off the nimble fingers of Tamara-Anna Cislowska... This is the kind of music that could exist at various levels ... all the way to late-night cabaret acts in Spiegeltents, best accompanied by exotic libations... it is hard to argue with its sincerity, wit and charm." (The Australian, April 2017)

Butterflying album reviews: “a true dream team... a dazzling collection.. lushly recorded and extremely accessible… Fasten your seatbelts and hold on.” (Limelight Editor's Choice, August 2016); “Detailed clarity and vibrant energy makes every note a winner. Cislowska’s robust delivery of Schubert Blues, drawing on Schubert’s Death and The Maiden, encompasses the piano’s full expressive range" (Courier Mail, 5 stars); “Whatever Tamara-Anna Cislowska does rewards attention and listening time… Many of the pieces here are most emotively taken by Cislowska… This is chimingly liquid and memorably melodic music.” (Musicweb International).

5 star reviews of Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano in BBC Music Magazine, 'Recording of the Month' and described as "Australian piano gold" and in GRAMOPHONE: "Cislowska's great gift is to pick up on the saudade inherent in this distinctive, finely-crafted, lyrical music, and project it outwards in an utterly natural, unforced manner. A profoundly affecting release" (January 2015)